Becker’s first poem “Shopping” is one of the everyday events, she takes this everyday event and makes her feelings and views expressed. In this poem she uses the word “if” repeatedly, this type of style flows like the nursery rhym

to the Second Continental Congress.”

I’ll order the leather duster and swagger

This one sentence in the Shopping poem is what an All-American Girl is all about. A girl that has the freedom to suppress her feelings by going out and doing something like this. This may seem odd or strange to others, but it is nothing but an example of what an All-American Girl from Becker’s perspective is. My perspective may be a young woman saying if we can’t make peace. I’ll buy the tight white tank top with the matching difficult to fit in short shorts and walk the corners of the local bar. My perspective may seem totally different, but it isn’t, they both have the same freedom that each All-American Girl has.

Robin Becker takes us many places: her restless energy is not as an escape from experience but an escape into experience. However far or deep her journeys, she brings us home to essential truths of human emotion. This emotion is Becker being an All-American Girl.

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